Tuesday, April 18, 2006

30 MORE FACTS THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO ACCEPT

The Defense Department has acknowledged that it conducted "inappropriate" surveillance of gay and lesbian groups at several universities across the country -- including UC Berkeley -- that were opposed to the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" law.

On national television, Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston revealed to the world that Bobby once manually removed a "dootie bubble" from Whitney's rectum.

Seattle, the Rainy City, gets less rainfall than either Washington D.C. or NYC.

There is actually a street in Lake Havasu City, Arizona called "Broomrape Lane." Here's the Google Map. And here's the visual proof:

In 1949, the New York Giants baseball team offered Fidel Castro a $5,000 signing bonus. Castro turned it down.

Goldie Hawn's real name is Goldie Jean Studlengehawn.

Since 1996, abstinence-only programs have been given $1 billion in federal funds; none of the programs provide information about safe sex or birth-control methods, other than discussing their likelihood of failure.

A study on these federally-funded abstinence-programs reports that the curricula erroneously teaches children that "a pregnancy occurs one out of every seven times that couples use condoms" and "a 43-day-old fetus is a 'thinking person.'"

Horses in Charleston, SC have had to wear diapers in public since 1975.

In the United States, there are currently 2,225 prisoners serving life sentences with no parole for crimes they committed while juveniles. Outside of the U.S., there are only twelve prisoners serving such sentences.

One of the Top 15 best-selling singles of all time in the United States is Bryan Adams' "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)," which sold over four million copies.

The word "nerd" first appeared in Dr. Seuss's book If I Ran the Zoo, published in 1950, where it was the name of one of Suess' many imaginary animals.

Ex-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan collected a reported $8.5 million for his memoir.

Dick Cheney himself was once on the receiving end of an accidental shotgun blast during a hunting trip in the late 1990s.

Prussian Blue, the 13-year-old female singing duo from Bakersfield, California, sent aid for Hurrican Katrina victims earmarked for Caucasians only. (Of course, this is not surprising since the two tweens are white nationalists.)

The book that holds the world record for best-selling copyrighted series of all time is the Guinness Book of World Records.